Assignment #12 -Assisted Ready Made

NWSA: Art 3-D Comprehensive   

Spring 2018 / Friday/1:10pm - 3:45pm Room 5102

Instructors: Hans Evers & Lauren Shapiro

Assisted Ready Made                      assignment #12       Due date 4/13

A term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to describe prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their intended use and elevated to the status of art by the artist choosing and designating them as such. The term “assisted Readymade” refers to works of this type whose components have been combined or modified by the artist.

Duchamp:  …“a piece of art that is used more to picture the work of art with the mind rather than the eye”

Your must submit a written proposal for two DIFFERENT pieces (each with a detailed 2D sketch and an explanation of your concept and which artists you researched for your piece) via reminds to your instructor on/before Monday 4/2!

You will have four weeks to think, research and work on the project. There is no class on 3/23 & 3/30, and on 4/6 we will have critiques, so you will do this project at home. There should be very little technique and/or skill involved with the ‘fabrication’ of this piece.